South Tyneside Mentoring Scheme. Funded by South Tyneside Youth Offending Team (£7,588). January 2003 to June 2003. Principal Investigator.

Early Intervention Follow-up Study: Funded by Gateshead Youth Offending Team (£4,467). October 2002 to January 2003 (Co-investigator with Dr Robin Humphrey)

Second Regional Evaluation of the Youth Inclusion Programme: The Northern Region. Funded by the Youth Justice Board (£71,500). March 2002 to March 2003 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

Regional Evaluation of the Youth Inclusion Programme: The Northern Region. Funded by the Youth Justice Board (£120,000). July 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

Pathways to Youth Crime Reduction. Funded by Sunderland City Council and Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£160,000). April 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

Bail Support Evaluation. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£12,000). April 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

Early Intervention. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£52,000). April 2001 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

Substance Misuse Amongst High Risk Populations of Young People. Funded by the Northumberland Health Action Zone (£39,609). December 2000 to September 2001 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robert Hollands).

Northumbria Police Community and Race Relations Audit. Research Consultant for Northumbria Police (£500). July 2000 to September 2000. Audit published in Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC) (2000) Winning the Race: Embracing Diversity. London: HMSO

Youth Crime Audit: City of Gateshead. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£5,000). April 2000 to May 2000 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

Research

Research interests

I am an interdisciplinary criminologist working across criminology, cultural studies and cultural geographies. My research and publishing interests centre on:

Substantive issues related to cultural and spatial understandings of criminal justice; policing, security and governance; social justice and citizenship; marginalised and precarious lives; conflict, transgression and resistance; penal cultures and politics; surveillance and risk; popular culture and media; the emotions and aesthetics of crime; the ethics of punishment;

Recently completed work

Rethinking Confidence in the Criminal Justice System: Alternative Perspectives in Public Understandings: funded by an ESRC Impact Grant: £5,000.00 November 2007 to Feb 2009. A one-day conference at Newcastle University which explored contemporary ways of rethinking `confidence’, and introduced a range of alternative perspectives on how `confidence’ may be conceptualised, measured and applied to questions of criminal justice. The conference was targeted to meet the needs and concerns of an audience of criminal justice professionals and policy-makers responsible for developing national, regional and local strategies for improving levels of public confidence.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership in Criminal Justice funded by ESRC (50%) and Northumbria Criminal Justice Board (50%): £120,000, Sept 2006 - Sept 2009. Public Confidence in Criminal Justice in the North East of England: This research created a grounded understanding of public confidence in the services delivered by the statutory criminal justice agencies in the north east region. The study explored how the phenomenon of `confidence' is talked about, experienced and evaluated by members of the public, and how this compares to its conceptualisation and operationalisation in current criminal justice policy and practice. This 3 year study generated a grounded, empirical knowledge-base of a heterogeneous (and contradictory) public discourse of confidence, which was used by the Northumbria Criminal Justice Board, and CJBs nationally, as a resource for developing a series of methodological tools capable of measuring this complexity. The study also informed the development of a communications strategy to enhance police-public engagement with confidence issues. This research study was the first KTP to be commissioned in the UK in the field of criminology/sociology . Sole Investigator.

The Virtual Prison Study funded by CSV: £160,000, September 2005 to August 2009. Clear Track: The CSV Virtual Young Offenders' Institution: This research explored theories of risk and desistance from offending in the context of a process and impact study of an innovative pilot approach to the sentencing of young adult offenders in the north east of England, and is the first of its kind in the UK. Understood as a `third sentencing option', the virtual prison (Clear Track) is a hybrid of custodial and community-based punishment, sometimes referred to as community custody. Sole Investigator

Criminal Justice and `Customer Satisfaction' within Black and Minority Ethnic Communities funded by the Northumbria Criminal Justice Board/Criminal Justice System Race Unit Challenge Fund: £11,175.00: January to September 2007. This research developed a contextual and qualitative understanding of `customer satisfaction' within BME communities in the north east of England by firstly, examining the relationship between lived experiences of criminal justice, and expressions of satisfaction (and dissatisfaction) with service delivery; and secondly, by positioning the concept of satisfaction within an emotional repertoire of criminal justice service quality and use, and to use this positioning to examine how satisfaction relates to other feelings such as trust, confidence, anger and frustration. The research made use of a participatory action research (PAR) approach in which members of BME communities acted as co-researchers and co-analysts of the study. The research findings have been used as a resource for the Northumbria CJB to develop strategies which address the `satisfaction gap', and to improve engagement with BME communities by exploring the potential transferability and applicability of the methodological approach.

South Tyneside Mentoring Scheme. Funded by South Tyneside Youth Offending Team (£7,588). January 2003 to June 2003. Principal Investigator.

Early Intervention Follow-up Study: Funded by Gateshead Youth Offending Team (£4,467). October 2002 to January 2003 (Co-investigator with Dr Robin Humphrey)

Second Regional Evaluation of the Youth Inclusion Programme: The Northern Region. Funded by the Youth Justice Board (£71,500). March 2002 to March 2003 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

Regional Evaluation of the Youth Inclusion Programme: The Northern Region. Funded by the Youth Justice Board (£120,000). July 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

Pathways to Youth Crime Reduction. Funded by Sunderland City Council and Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£160,000). April 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

Bail Support Evaluation. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£12,000). April 2000 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

Early Intervention. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£52,000). April 2001 to March 2002 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robin Humphrey).

Substance Misuse Amongst High Risk Populations of Young People. Funded by the Northumberland Health Action Zone (£39,609). December 2000 to September 2001 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson and Dr Robert Hollands).

Northumbria Police Community and Race Relations Audit. Research Consultant for Northumbria Police (£500). July 2000 to September 2000. Audit published in Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC) (2000) Winning the Race: Embracing Diversity. London: HMSO

Youth Crime Audit: City of Gateshead. Funded by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (£5,000). April 2000 to May 2000 (Co-investigator with Professor Diane Richardson, Dr Robin Humphrey and Dr Robert Hollands).

Campbell, Elaine (2015) `Policing as assemblage: the emergence of digital vigilantism’, Invited paper. British Society of Criminology Annual Conference. University of Plymouth. 1-3 July 2015.

Campbell, Elaine (2014) `Policing paedophilia: assembling bodies, spaces and things', Invited workshop contributor. Decentring Security: Building and Policing Communities at Home and Abroad. Center for British Studies. University of California Berkeley. Funded by The Mellon Foundation. 12 December 2014

Campbell, Elaine (2014) `Criminology as a politics of aesthetics’, Invited speaker. 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Charles University, Prague. 10-13 September 2014

Campbell, Elaine (2014) `Policing without boundaries’. Sub-plenary paper. Power, Culture and Social Framing, The Final Annual CRESC Conference, University of Manchester, 3-5 September 2014

Campbell, Elaine (2011) `Ranciere, a right to a fair trial and an aesthetics of difference', Intersections of Law and Culture Conference 2011, Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland. 23-25 September 2011

Campbell, Elaine (2011) ‘Law, literary culture(s) and a politics of aesthetics’. ‘The Letter of the Law: Law Matters in Language and Literature’, 8th International Conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English. University of Athens. Greece. 5-8 May 2011

Campbell, Elaine (2011) ‘Spaces of desecration: performing the city and choreographing the urban’. Asian Conference on Cultural Studies. Osaka, Japan. 23-25 March 2011

Campbell, Elaine (2010) ‘The poetics of international human rights: multiculturalism as dramaturgy and theatre’. Third International Conference on Multicultural Discourses. Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China, 27-29 August 2010

Campbell, Elaine (2010) ‘Law, popular culture(s) and the politics of aesthetics’. XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Research Committee 12 [Sociology of Law] Panel/Session 7, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July 2010

Campbell Elaine (2010) ‘Catastrophic crime(s) and the reinvention of national identities’. Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and Deviance Conference. University of Leeds, UK, 30 March 2010

Campbell, E (2009) ‘Reading-writing autopsy: a dirty theory of the science of death’. Invited speaker at Technology, Death and the Cultural Imagination Seminar. Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London, UK, 30 October 2009

Campbell E (2009) `Justice in the risk society: Barthes goes to Hollywood’. Managing the Social Impacts of Change from a Risk Perspective. Conference funded by CASS/RCUK/ESRC, Beijing Normal University, People’s Republic of China. 15-17 April 2009.

Campbell, E (2008) `Empowering the citizens by putting people in their place’. Rethinking Confidence in the Criminal Justice System. Conference funded by an ESRC Impact Grant. Newcastle University, UK, 13 November 2008

Campbell, E (2008) `The counterpublic sphere of comedy: a Bakhtinian perspective’. 8th European Society of Criminology Conference. Conference Theme: on Criminology and the Public Sphere, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2-5 September 2008

Campbell, E (2008) `A carnival of justice’ International Conference on Justice and Policing in Diverse Societies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, to be held at the University of San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9-12 June 2008

Campbell, E (2008) `Powers of life and death in the governance of affect’ Fifth Annual Social Theory Forum, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, 16-17 April 2008

Campbell E (2008) Chair of Panel `Media and the criminal justice system: mutual pressures and interdependencies:’ organised for the Justice, Media and Public Conference. Keele University, UK, 28-29 February 2008

Campbell E (2007) Chair of Panel `Understanding Communities’ organised for the European Society of Criminology Conference. University of Bologna, Italy, 26 to 29 September 2007

Campbell E (2007) `Public Confidence as an Emotionality of Rule’ Stockholm Criminology Symposium. University of Stockholm, Sweden, 4 to 6 June 2007

Research roles

Convenor of Visualities Research Group, Newcastle University since 2011

Founder and Convenor of the Critical Visual and Discourse Research Cluster, Newcastle University, 2008-2010 (disbanded October 2010; relaunched as the Visualities Research Group, January 2011)

Postgraduate Supervision

I am interested in supervising innovative proposals in all aspects of cultural and critical criminology, and which look across disciplinary boundaries. I especially welcome applications in the following areas: i) Cultural perspectives on criminological topics, including questions of emotionality and aesthetics; ii) socio-spatial understandings of criminality and policing; iii) discourse, visual and media analysis; iv) the cultural politics of crime and punishment, law and governance, surveillance and risk; and v) work which develops a post-critique of modernist criminological theorizing and research.

Kirsty Blewitt (2018) `I hurt her. I hurt her bad. She's dead': An interdisciplinary exploration of interactions between the state and the individual in legal settings (self-funded) - with Dr Peter Sercombe (SECLS);

Turner LR, Campbell E, Dale A, Graham RH. Summary of the Exploratory Qualitative Research.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, 2008. Creating a knowledge-base of public confidence in the Criminal Justice System 3.

Turner LR, Campbell E, Dale A, Graham RH. Literature Review.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, 2007. Creating a knowledge-base of public confidence in the Criminal Justice System 2.

Turner LR, Campbell E, Dale A, Graham RH. Baseline Audit.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, 2006. Creating a knowledge-base of public confidence in the Criminal Justice System 1.